Results for "Multi-instrumentalist"

Nacho Valenciaga

Born: July 20, 1967

Juan Ignacio Sánchez Hernández (Madrid, 1967) is a composer, arranger, producer, and multi-instrumentalist whose career is as diverse as it is refined. Known artistically as Nacho Valenciaga, and through his alternative projects lofiATTICUS and the modern crooner ZANE, his bass guitar stands as the emblem of a craft shaped through decades of musical exploration.

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Michel Freidenson

Born: August 14, 1961

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Considered one of the great pianists of Brazil, Michel Freidenson is a composer, producer, keyboardist, and arranger. Founder of the legendary instrumental group "ZonaAzul," he participated in the effervescence of the Brazilian instrumental movement in the 80s.

Throughout his career, Michel has recorded and participated in shows in Brazil and around the world with great artists such as: Hermeto Pascoal (deceased), Luiz Millan, Djavan, Ivan Lins, Tim Maia (deceased), Filó Machado, Ana Caram, Márcio Montarroyos (deceased), Fafá de Belém, Bocato, Edu Santhana, Léa Freire, Teco Cardoso, Duda Neves, Lô Borges, Raul de Souza, Jane Duboc, Leny de Andrade, Badi Assad, Celso Pixinga, Corciolli, Thijs Van Leer and Bobby Jacobs from the Dutch progressive rock band "Focus," among many others, in addition to having international recognition with his "Michel Freidenson Trio." At age 5 he began playing the guitar. At age 6 he started playing the piano, with guidance from Professor Arlete Ognibene who allowed him "freedom" to create, compose, and have fun according to the inspiration of the moment. Simultaneously, he had the guidance of a great Master, Roberto Ribeiro de Souza (deceased), the guitar professor who taught him music and its transformative power, teaching him to listen to music, perceiving the paths of sounds, intentions, and arrangements, independent of sheet music. At age 14, Michel attended Clam - Centro Livre de Aprendizagem Musical (Free Center for Musical Learning), run by the Zimbo Trio.

Xavier Moore

Born: July 16

Xavier Moore is an aspiring teen Multi- insturmentalist,  (Main Insturment being Tenor Sax) Composer and Arranger from Upstate New York. He's gigged with Fred Wesley and Claire Daly, he spoke with Wynton Marsalis and some of his other fellow musicians. He comes from a musical family and became interested in jazz by his grandfather at 9-10 years old and started recording (not professionally) at 16. One unique thing about him is that he likes to dress vintage!

Arnab Sengupta

Born: September 22, 1977

Arnab Sengupta is a contemporary singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer based in Bangalore, India. With a musical journey spanning over three decades, Arnab’s work stands at the confluence of lyrical sensitivity, jazz-rooted sophistication, and deeply personal storytelling.

Drawn to music with quiet intensity from a young age, Arnab immersed himself in the study of Western contemporary styles—particularly jazz—long before he began writing his own songs. By 2006, after years of listening, transcribing, and honing his craft, he began composing original work that fused instinct with introspection.

Tom Teasley

Born: December 2

Tom Teasley, described in the Washington Post as “a multi-instrumental genius,” maintains a unique career as a solo percussionist, composer, and collaborator. He is a Drummie Award winner for “World Percussionist of the Year by Drum! Magazine. Tom is a multi Helen Hayes Theatre Award recipient for outstanding sound design (nominations in 2012, 2014, 2015, and 2019). Tom tours frequently worldwide, performing and presenting clinics for the instrument companies he endorses, including Yamaha, Vic Firth, Sabian, Remo, and Gon Bops. His educational book /DVD, An American Approach to World Percussion, is published by Alfred Publishing.

K Prouty

Born: November 29, 1974

Composer, producer, multi instrumentalist and guitar virtuoso. K Prouty has shared stages with shred and metal greats, played festivals and sold out concerts, been featured in magazine, podcasts and radio world wide. His music has been the sound of clothing brands, and been featured in film.

2023 was a time to change and embarking on several different paths, with a soundscape album release "Soundscapes from the dying world", a David Bowie cover album "Heathens Reality", both under his other project moniker "Building Upon The Revelation" and shifting of direction to Jazz and a reworking of original tunes under K Prouty

Myles Cochran

Myles Cochran is an American composer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Born and raised in Kentucky, Myles then played in and led bands and worked as a producer and engineer in New York City.  He now splits his time between east London and Devon in the UK.  His recent releases have received airplay across Britain, including from luminaries such as Gideon Coe on BBC6 Music and Elizabeth Alker on BBC Radio 3. Aside from praise across the board for his solo work, Myles has also found recent acclaim for his work with Irish singer Bróna McVittie, with whom he worked for several years as co-producer and steel guitarist. 

Nicol River

Born: December 3, 1997

Nicol River is a composer, singer, multi-instrumentalist and director. She has recorded an album of jazz standards and has released several singles which have received an overwhelmingly positive response by her audience.

Nicol River's music can be described as 'contemporary folk', as she draws her inspiration from traditional music across the world including Balkan, Indian, Celtic and Nordic music, and translates it all to modern arrangements. Her lyrics delve into the philosophical complexities of life and death, joy and sorrow, spread across experimental harmonies and atypical time signatures.

​Nicol is the Director of River Music School London, the founder and co-organiser of the Young Cats Jazz Workshop at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, and a governor at the Wandle Learning Trust.

Macarena Rocha

Born: February 14, 1990

Macarena Rocha is a Chilean–born singer (lightweight soprano of exotic long range), multi–instrumentalist musician, composer and educator with Russian roots, raised on the periphery at south of Santiago de Chile, based in Argentina.

She has made contributions especially in Worldmusic, Ethno Jazz and Folk Electronic music. From the melodic song to the instrumental elaboration going through improvisation, and with an extension many times in big band format on stage.

Jason Vitelli

Born: 1979

With three literate singer-songwriter releases to his credit, it might seem paradoxical that Brooklyn-based Jason Vitelli’s newest project presents his music without lyrics. But as he notes, 1. Ambient Corridors is an inaugural instrumental collection that signifies a return to his roots. ​

In 2003, after his composition and scoring studies, Jason created music for student films, documentaries, and short films, all while working in tandem with an accomplished film composer. Much of the music on this project is selected from this previous period, refined and given new life, as he explains. “A return to form; re-establishing work I’d done years ago and building upon it.”